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Re: multiarch and interpreters/runtimes



On Thu, Apr 18, 2013 at 04:18:20PM +0100, Neil Williams wrote:
> On Thu, 18 Apr 2013 16:41:35 +0200
> Matthias Klose <doko@debian.org> wrote:
> 
> >  - running a gdb:amd64 on i386 to debug 64bit binaries. This is the
> >    reason for our current gdb64 package on i386, but it is missing the
> >    support for the python based pretty printer.
> >    Installing gdb:amd64 on i386 in wheezy will remove the whole i386
> >    python stack and then install the amd64 python stack. For this use
> >    case the needed amd64 python stuff should just be installed without
> >    removing the i386 packages.
> > 
> >  - install vim for a foreign architecture. Ok, not really a good use case,
> >    but it comes with an insane amount of embedded interpreters. It
> >    should be installable without removing the "native" interpreter
> >    packages, and the embedded interpreters should still be usable.
> 
> Hmm, is this really a strong use case? vim-tiny can be a pain
> sometimes, I know, but are those embedded interpreters in vim-full all
> that useful? (Or am I missing something?)

They're useful if you want to use or develop plugins for Vim that use
those language bindings instead of basic vim script.

Cheers,
-- 
James
GPG Key: 4096R/331BA3DB 2011-12-05 James McCoy <jamessan@debian.org>

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